stockyard

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The price of the grilled rib-eye might have you choking, but the $90 stockyard — er, platter — of blushing beef, sliced for easy feasting, could easily feed a bunkhouse.

From Washington Post • Feb. 4, 2022

In that regard, the terrain of Spokane was as rich as a Chicago stockyard or a central California migrant-labor camp.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 27, 2020

Merwin examined his own mind in “Plane” and found it “infinitely divided and hopeless/like a stockyard seen from above.”

From Washington Times • Mar. 15, 2019

Instead of booths the size of stockyard stalls, there were wide-open prairies of exhibition space on all three floors.

From New York Times • Mar. 5, 2015

Chicago was on the move, becoming biggest at just about everything: world’s biggest lumberyard, world’s busiest grain center, and, when the Union Stock Yard opened in 1865, the world’s biggest stockyard.

From "A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919" by Claire Hartfield